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Transcript in the news of July 12, 2007 (With some misspelled words)
There's been continuous rain
since june.
It's raised the river to
dangerously high levels, and
there have been further land
slides, too.
Lebanese troops have resumed
shelling a palestinian refugee
camp in north lebanon.
It comes just hours after the
primesiniora,ll
final end to the al
qaeda-inspired militants
entrenched inside.
The camp is occupied by
refugees, most of whom has fled
since fighting starred.
>> Has come under fire
from the armY.
The assault comes aftero o ight-week
standoff at the camp.
That triggered an exodus of
hundreds of palestinian
refugees, fpped
paralysing political crisis.
There have been a series of
bombings in and around beiruT.
>> Firefighters w
have
launched a scathing attack on
the front-runner for the
republican presidential
nomination.
They produced a video, in fact,
claiming failures by rude
rudy giuliani, the governor of
new york at the -- the mayor of
new york at thehsix
irefighters whos
their union leaders and
some bereaved relatives accuse
giuliani of exploiting the
tragedy and using it as a theme
for hisda
they list failures, one that he
failed to replace
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call because theiros wrt.
Ea dedicated to
the cause.
>> An illegal immigrant who is giuliani's campaign team
says the former mayor has a long
history of supporting
firefighters' health and safety
issues and the video is not
behind it.
The union behind it supports
only democratic presidential can
cates.
-- Candidates.
It's early days in the election
campaign, but this attack on the
former mayor's judgment and
leadership is clearly an effort
to scupper his hopes long bef final decision whobc news, new yorK.
>> Several thousand people have
attended the funeral in pakistan
of the militant religious leader
ghazI gauze.
He was killed during the siege
of the red mosque in the capital
islamabad.
He was buried in his home
village in the centre of the
country.
In islamabad itself, authorities
have begun burying some of the
militants killed in the attack.
They say they found 73 bodies on
the grounds of the red mosque
after the siege.
Let's get some pictures that
have just come in to us of the
compound itselF.
We were promised that
journalists would be taken
around the compound.
You see the pock-marked walls
there clearly from the level of the high
floors there.
A lot of the later activity
taking place in the basement, as
slamabad
is phil mackeY.
He's at the red mocks.
Phil, we're running through the
pictures in the basement where
so much of the trouble seemed to
be focused.
What is the sense at the moment
that you're getting, the
 reaction to, a, the number of
people killed, and the degree to
which we were being told hoen and cn inside.
>> Very good question reallY.
The first one that is exercising
a lot of minds at the moment is
how many people died in there,
and if the final death toll is
around 1, as it sames to be --
around 100, as it seems to be at
the moment, then I think the
government will say it was a
very, very successful operation
because we think that of that
100 or so people, between 70 and
08 would be militants who dieD.
Many of those have been buried
in a cemetery overnight in
islamabad.
A colleague of mine has been out
here and counted between 65 and
70 freshly covered graves.
The question youkedasked is
what happened to all the women
and children we were told wereffouoesn't appear that any more
than handful have been killeD.
>> It's interesting.
As weur heardthe complexity of the
place, the number of nooks and
crannies, little cor
>> Well, it was more than a
mosque.
The most sex a centrepiece, but
it's a huge complex.
I likened it to a high school or
secondary school or a boarding
one at that. Have accommodations for
living and eating, t
it was fast vast complex.
The pictures you're seeing are
showing that.
We'v days, very focused,
room to room, the battl milto exactly what it looked like
at the red mosque itself.
Phil, thanks very much indeeD.N n in
news and some big news in mining
>> A lot of money indeeD.
Look, it's a very exciting story
certainly in the circles of the
mini titon, massive
companY.
They've put an offer on the
table, just over $38 billion for
alcan, the third biggest alum
com
alcan is very favourable to this
offer.
It's a heck of a sum of money,lion. Win-win situation for rio
tintO.
They want to g aluminum businesS.
Now we have to see who will put
another o
these major companies.
If they all get pulled, sucked
into one monster like this, what
does that mean for us lot?
>> I'm glad you ask that because
a lot willto mE.
It means a lot to the consumer
around the world.
A company like this, when they
merge together like that, they
can cut costs.
But cutting costs means in cheapest possible way.
When you think of what aluminum
is used, it's used in everythingood
plane bodies.
If it's cheaper to buy, it keeps
the costs
to includeing the.
We'll tell you why she stormed of "vanity fair's" photo
shooT.
U.N.
Ki-moon has talked exclusively t
goals in the middle east.
He told bridget kendall one of
his main aims is to see the
palestinians reestablish a
national unity government.
>> As the secretary-general of
the united nations, i helitie
help those people in gaza, and
there are 1.4 milpon
daily assistance.
We must carry on
humanitarian activities.
At the same time as a member of
the process, i'm going to do my
best efforts to help to realise
the two-state visions.
That is one palestinian and one
israeli living in peace and
security side by side.
I'd like to see the unity
government as soon as possiblE.
>> How worried are you about the
situation in iraq if one looks
at the violence there?
They're at levels of violence
and people dyinglrey ast
>> I visited iraqim discussions with the
iraqi leaders.
As a part of thisibution, as i said,
we tried to help the political
facilitation.
My special representative in
baghdad has been meeting with
the iraqis s the region of the
country, but as i said, t
situation, a very dangerous
situation.
>> You're watching bbc world.
A reminder of the main newS.
The bush administration is
expected to announce that the
surge of U.S. Troops in iraq has
had mixed success.
Militants
inside a palestinian refugee
camp.
This near the northern city of
tripoli.
A change of scene now.Ff
after a run-in
leibibz says sh the
shot would look better without
the crown.
>> The queen retorging anything" and she walks
ofF.
A spokesman says the queen doesoo
thiisllrepared
for her 80th birthdaY.
Enough from me.
Let's have a listen to how
without the crown, less dressY.
>> I'm not changing anythinG.
I've done enougH.
Thank you very mucH.
>>I had
with me a consultant of the
royal society of portrait
painters.
Unusual or is this the way that pae queen?
>> I think this is
unprecedented.
What is fascinating, of course,
is the queen is saying precisely
she knows she's being filmed and
she thinks annie leibowitz is
taking a liberty.
I think fascinating clue is to
look at leibowitz, a celebrity
in her own right, someone used
to be paid a fne
though things she could stay
with.
She's dealing with a monarch and
the queen is making it u
>> I think you'd look better
without the crown, less dressY.Chn her
tone.
In a way what do you think that
does for our perception of the
queen? Terms?
>> It's absolutely first c
a
comp the
not the crown, but that wasn't
the distinction that was
upsetting the queen.Bowitz was
being unreasonablE.
She was.
Basically what we saw at the
end, the queen looks a bit
strong, i the photograph, i
thought here's a woman of
character, she most certainly
is. It w acc i suppose in the
end everyone wins.
>> Everyone wins in the end.
The queen has the character that
we know she possesses.
And art is the beneficiary.
An excellent series of
photographs, too.
>> And a nice little insight.
Do stay with us.
Still to come on bbc world, too
much information.
How modern technology can make
us easy prey for criminals and
snoopers.
One of europe's top sportsmen
whose professional life has
earned him iewpis name all
over again in the united states.
It's david beckham, of coursE.
He arrives in los angeles today
as he starts on his multimillion
dollar contract w
R.
>> Theng real madrid --
manchester united and real
madrid footballer david beckham
is about to become a soccer
staryi0 adoring fans
may be over.
After signing a deal to play
were the L.A. Galaxy, he may
have to set hiss le tcrin new york city to open the
stock exchange and launch a
literacy campaign, he knows that
ck
united states, has got his work
cut out.
>> Everybody knows beckham is a
good player, a very well-known
all over the world.
I think he could help a lot the
soccer, football, soccer in the
united states.
>> The beckham family are aboutmen mov
television interview, his wife
pop singer victoria says she's
keen to promote the beckham
branD.
>> It's always about the outfit,
you know.
Yeah, i think at the end of the
day titures they
want.
May make you to look the way
they want you to looK.
>> David bec
galaxy teammates on friday.
Then the real work begins.
Russell trot, bbc newS.
>> Now, a fat tax on unhealthy
foods could save more than 3,000
lives a year in the u.K. Alone.
That's according to a team of
medical researchers here in
britain.
They found that extra tax on
things full of fat, salt and
sugar could cut the number of
heart attacks and strokes.
Now, if you used google today,
you probably have because we do
all the time it seems to keep in
touch or to search for something
on the web, but every time you
do it, you're leaving an
information trail of sorts
behind you.
Our reporter investigates just
how much we come under
surveincder threaT.
>> The U.K., A democracy and
home to more than 06 million
people. One of the
but to what extent our are
movements tracked and analysed?
Do technologicals help
consumers and make us safer, or
do they affect our civil
liberties?
Are we living in a surveillance
society?
Many of us now shop, work and
even socialize on line,ut
leaving?
When we visit a web site, often
it will leave what's called a
cookie on our computers, which
allows companies to track future
visits and store data about our
interests.
The search engine google is
gathering a huge amount of
information on its customers.
>> Google say they would like
the use the data to be able to,
for example, suggest to you
where you might like to g
f
ke people will be... If they
start to not trust google
because of personal privacy,
individual privacy, then we've pro are
literally one click away from
switching to another service.
Everything we do is gated by
that.Ooe
retention period.
So essentially after 18 months
everything is forgotten.
>> Records are also kept about
who i talked to and where when
I'm on the phone.
>> So susanna here is walking
down a high streeT.
Certainly her mobile phone
company knows where the phone is
because it needs to talk to the
phone company's local towers,
but even when susanna hangs up,
the phone still will be keeping
>> Chatting online is now
increasingly popular.
Social networking sites like
face book are luring thousands
of people to sign up.
>> We have susanna's pag
other pages have a lot of very
detailed information.
It has links to their friends.
It can have very embarrassingu have a
employer going out and
investigating you, they'll have
access to all tn
person happens to have their
e-mail contact, their mobile
phone number, their land phone
number, their current address.
Cybercls can access this
informat asier.
But computer privacy experts say
we should make sure the kit we
use is secure and be more awarehow mucwe gegramme at bbcnews.Com.
Particularly you might want to
look at the pictures that havme
these are the latest pictures
from the red mosque in
islamabad.
Of course, the storming of theue and our
correspondent down there in some
bad 100 bodies in all found
after the storming of the siege.
Theseew minutes.
More on bbcnews.Com.
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